Improvement in machinery for charging gas-retorts



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UNITED STATES; PATENT OFFICE.

cHARLEs E. DiETEEIcH, QEBALTIMOEE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINERY-.Fon CHARGING GAS-RETQRTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. 194,995, datedSeptember 11, 1877; application led l November 6, 1876.

To all whom 'it may concern: 1

Beit known that I, CHARLES F. DIETERIOH,

of .the city of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certainImprovements in Machinery for Charging' Gas-Retorts,.of which? thefollowing is a specitcationfrefereuce being had to the accompanyingdrawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates, first, to a car or wheeled vehicle to be used intransporting coal from the coal-shed or place ofstorage to theretort-house, in which the retort-charging machine is located.

The invention relates, secondly, to the combination of the saidcoal-transporting car with the said retort-charging machine, ashereinafter fully set forth.

Thirdly, the invention relates to the combination of the saidretort-charging machine with a turn-table having a track and pivoted toa car, as and for purposes fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure lis an exterior side view of thecoal-transportation car and the retort-charging machine in the relativepositions which they occupy when coal is to be transferred from the saidcar to the said charging-machine. Fig. 2 is a side view of theretort-charging machine and retorts, the said retorts being shown partlyin section. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of Fig. l, lshown in half-sectionon the line c w. Figs. 4 and 5 are, respectively, a side and an end viewof parts of the retort-charging machine on an enlarged scale, showingthe devices whereby the same is vertically adjusted to suit the retorts.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts of the invention inall the views.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, A is the frame of thecoal-transportation car, provided with Wheels to run upon the main trackB, leading from the coal-shed to the retort-house, and thence back tothe said shed. O C are the coal-troughs, supported by the frame A, andadapted to bedischarged of their contents by being inverted. Three ofthe troughs are connected by gear-wheels b, and revolved through theagency of a crank, b', the other three troughs (shown in section in Fig.3) being either operated byV meanslof asimilar, system i In filling thecar, the troughs C are placed y as shown in the drawing, and coal isintro-v duced thereto from a chute, or by meansfofshovels. The car isthen drawn alongthe track B to the retort-house, where the troughs areinverted and their contents discharged to the scoops of thecharging-machine, the troughs and scoops occupying the relativepositions indicated in Fig. 1.

The retort-charging machine consists of the following-describedmechanism: A Wheeled frame, D, resting on the main track B, is adaptedto support a turn-table pivoted to the said frame, the turn-table beingprovided with a track, E, as shown. The track E carries a wheeled frame,F, having the overhanging scoops G projecting therefrom. The scoops G,which are located in the frame F to correspond with the arrangement ofthe retorts in the bench, are each provided with a removable slidingbottom, G', constructed to be moved longitudinally of the scoop, towhich it is connected by means of a toothed rack, c, and a pinion, d. Aconjoined movement of th'e scoop-bottom is effected by the chain-heads eand endless chains f; but 1 do not restrict myself to ythis mode ofcombining the scoopbottoms and their motions, as gears or othermovement-transmitting devices may be employed to effect the same result.

In charging the scoops G of the retortcharging machine, lthe saidmachine is brought in connection with the lled transportationcar, asshown in Fig. 1. The troughs are then discharged, as before described,the coal being evenly distributed over the,` scoops, after which theempty transportation-car is with drawn. The scoops are then turned ataright angle with the main track B, and introduced into the retorts, asshown in Fig. 2. The sliding bottoms G are now moved out, and the coalis allowed to pass to the bottoms of the retorts, thecrosssemi-partitions g retaining the coal as the sliding bottoms arewithdrawn. The relative positions of the retort-chargingVby.tLetters.:'-lfatentof thefUnitediStatesmachine and the retorts atthis stage of the operation are'illustrated in .'.Figx' 2, the retorts.being shown in section.

with racks on ,the vertically-moving supports of the scoops, and thatthe turningof fthe crank-handles shown will cause the scoops to beelevated or depressed.

zIl claim asmy; invention, andy `wishito secure i l-A coaltransportingcarthaving;one"01` more ff series: ofiinvertible troughs placed i one.labove the oth'er,-f eachtroufgh'having' vcapacity g lforacharge for .aisin gle retort; and "bein g constructed 4to-aempty its 'contents intoa'retort- "ch argerzwhen placedthereunder,-'sbstantially asV specified.l 2. -A coalftransporting car 'h'aving 'oneforl 4morei'series ofinvertible troughs placed one; ,abovethe other, eachtrough havingcapacity* for a vcharge for asingle retort, combined vwithajgas-retort-charging machine, consisting of a vwheeled frame having oneor more series' of overhanging scoops placed one above the other, eachscoop being provided with a sliding bottom, substantially as and for thepurl'posesfhereinspecified.

3. A coal-transporting car having one or `more seriesof ,invertibletroughs placed one "above the other, and. lprovidedwith `mechanismwhereby the whole number of troughs in either or all theseries may besimultaneously inverted; substantially as'f'andforthe purposes-lsetforth.

4. A wheeled gas-retort-charging machine having one or more series ofoverhanging scoops, constructed "and operating substan- 1@ 1 tially asdescribed,` combined lwith aturn-'table pivoted f toaI ycar and providedwith a'track,

substantiallyfasandfor thej purposes specified.

"In testimony whereof I' havehereunto subscribed my name "this 2d`day-of November, `in* the year of* our lLord y1:87 6.

CHARLES F. .IDIETERIGR Witnesses WJW. WHARTON, J. M. MYERS.

